Facebook helps readers tell truth from fiction
Facebook said on Monday that it is testing a way to let members know when articles posted to the social network are tongue-in-cheek instead of hand-on-heart.
Three climbers die after 800-metre fall from Mont Blanc
Two climbers and their guide have fallen 800 metres to their death in the Mont Blanc range, French police said on Monday, the latest in a series of tragedies on Europe’s highest mountain.
WHO does not recommend ban on international travel due to Ebola outbreak
The World Health Organization said Monday that it had set up a task force with the global airline and tourism industry in an effort to contain the spread of Ebola.
Activist drags INEC to court over registration of SDP, UPN
A pro-democracy activist, Mr. Richard Akinnola has dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) before a Federal High Court, Abuja over an alleged unlawful registration of two prohibited political parties-Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) and Social Democratic Party (SDP).
We are winning the war on polio – Kano Govt
Kano state Deputy Governor, Dr. Umar Abdullahi Ganduje has revealed that the state is winning the war on polio.
Dr. Ganduje told reporters in his office Monday that latest statistics shows that Kano records 20 fresh cases last year, adding that the figures has crashed to 4 this year.
‘Looters of Liberia’s Ebola centre took mattresses, bedding soaked with patients’ fluids’
Liberian officials were searching Monday for 17 Ebola patients who fled an attack on a quarantine centre in the capital Monrovia, raising fears that they could spread the deadly and highly contagious disease.
